HL2, EP1, and EP2 campaign intro cutscenes/npc animations broken

[Crimsonskar]

Just like the title says. For example, in the intro to EP1 Alyx is missing her "thrown back by explosion" pose and the Vortigaunts all appear in T-pose. Not only that, but you are seemingly stuck in the rubble unable to move after Dog (also frozen without animation) unburies you. Another example is when Alyx exits the train after the crash and is supposed to lean against the wall to rest, except she just stands there doing nothing. I read that this has something to do with Valve compressing all of the VCD files for its older games into scenes.image files and Garry's Mod can no longer find them. Are there any fixes for this on the horizon?

[Rubat]

This is normal. Nothing you can do about it, except for extracting models from .vpks of the game you are about to play into gmod.

[Crimsonskar]

I've had success extracting the scenes.image from EP1 and now I have all of the loose VCD files, but I'm not sure what to do with them. I've tried putting them in the Gmod addons folder under EP1 Scenes\scenes, but that doesn't seem to work.

[Rubat]

You don't need the scenes, all hl2/ep1/ep2 scenes are already in gmods scenes.image. The problem lies in missing animations in models.

[Crimsonskar]

So I just need to extract the models folder from the hl2/ep1/ep2 vpks and put them each in a separate folder in addons?

[Rubat]

No, not in addons. I am not sure if addons override game files or not. I have them extracted to garrysmod/garrysmod/models/ from ep2s vpk.

[Crimsonskar]

That did the trick! I copied the models folder to garrysmod\garrysmod and that seems to have fixed most of my issues. There are still a couple of bugs with the intro (vortigaunts eyes are opened really wide except for the two that grab Alyx) and when Dog puts me down my FOV stays really low, but at least I'm closer than what I was. Thanks!

[Rubat]

You can't fix those issues, they are broken in GMod itself.